Author: traci

  • This has been an odd week for me, cooking-wise. Here are some recipes I posted this past week: I plan to use the crock pot for our dinner next week, so my family can have home-cooked meals instead of just eating whatever.  I’ll post my menu on Monday.  :) I have two more recipes I…

  • When we eat pasta dishes at our house, the three of us enjoy eating garlic bread with our dinner.  The Wee One refuses to eat garlic bread.  That means extra garlic bread for the rest of us. The other day I decided to make garlic bread using hoagie buns from Sam’s Club.  The result was…

  • Creamy Tomato Soup

    Sometimes I crave the classic combo of grilled cheese and tomato soup.  I really don’t like condensed tomato soup unless I doctor it up with basil.  So when I craved it, I decided to try making a homemade version of the soup.  It ended up being yummy! This recipe came from Rachael Ray.  As a…

  • Applesauce Overnight Oatmeal

    Until a few years ago, breakfast was not a favorite meal of mine.  I rarely ate breakfast which is not a good habit to get into.  Then I made a resolution in 2013 to eat breakfast every day.  I did 98% of the time, but a few times, I forgot to – usually if I…

  • This blog has been around for five years (June 2010).  However, I stopped writing about it in Feb. 2014.  I tried to pick it up on the blogger platform until August 2014 but stopped. Now I’ve decided to restart the blog.  I need ideas of what topics to write about.  If you could please comment…

  • Hamburger Patties

    Since Hubby needs to be out the door soon after I get home, quick meals are important. Hamburgers are one meal that can be put on the table quickly. Cook up some fries with it or serve some potato chips with the hamburgers. Add some raw veggies, and you have a complete meal. Hint about…

  • When I was in college back in the 1990’s, I worked at McDonald’s.  I usually worked at the front counter, front drive-thru, or back drive through.  Hubby knew I was someone special because I would take an order, take money, and be eating my dinner in the office next to the drive-thru all at the…

  • This is an easy meal to impress your guests with. On Sundays, we usually eat dinner with my mother-in-law.  It’s a tradition that started when Hubby and I were just married.  My father-in-law usually made the dinner.  When he died, we continued the tradition.  Sometimes I make the dinner.  Other times my mother-in-law makes the…

  • “Chef Paul’s World Famous Pancakes” or Wee One’s New Favorite Pancakes

    Disclaimer:  I don’t know Paul. He attended the same church my grandma did back in 1994, but that’s all I know. In 2007, my grandma fell and broke her leg. Since she had to go live in a nursing home, we had to clear out of her house. That was a somber and tedious task.…

  • We love chocolate chip cookies around here.  However, I’m not always in the mood to mix up a full batch of cookies.  Make ahead chocolate chip cookie mix to the rescue.  The dry ingredients are already mixed up, so all you need to do is add the wet ingredients and mix. Hint:  Use an electric…